Real Life and Other Fictions was named a best book of the year

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Cassie Klein, a 50-something creative-writing teacher, finds herself running away from life as she knows it: empty nest, difficult marriage, cheating husband. But what is she running to? Coll’s seventh novel is all about the wild, unpredictable sprint to something else.

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Susan Coll continues to skewer life in D.C.’s suburbs in her new book ‘The Stager’

In 2011 Susan Coll routinely walked Reno Road. At the time, her marriage of almost 30 years was breaking up. And she was reading a lot of memoirs by women who’d gone through their own major life crises.

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Need a laugh? ‘The Literati’ is a delightful comedy of errors.

Susan Coll’s eighth novel, “The Literati,” is a funny, sometimes zany comedy of errors with a splash of rom-com — heavy on the com and light on the rom, which is refreshing.

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Nobody does crazy comedy of errors like Susan Coll — Oprah Daily

From the moment Clemi walks into her office at a Washington, D.C., literary nonprofit, things go wrong. The place has been ransacked, her boss is missing, and a huge cat is sitting on her desk. (Clemi is allergic.)